Hisashi Kobayashi, the Sherman Fairchild University Professor Emeritus of Princeton University and a long-time member of the IEEE Information Theory Society (Fellow 1977, Life Fellow 2003), received a 2012 C&C (Computer and Communications) Prize.  Kobayashi was awarded for his “pioneering and leading contribution both to the invention of high-density and highly reliable digital recording technology and to the creation and development of a performance-evaluation methodology for computer and communication systems.”

The C&C Prize, established in March 1985 by the NEC C&C Foundation, is given annually to no more than two groups in recognition of their outstanding contributions to research and development and/or pioneering work in the fields of semiconductors, computers, and/or telecommunications and in their integrated technologies (C&C).